Another medication has made its way on the possible “do not take” list for coronavirus symptoms: dextromethorphan, an over-the-counter cough suppressant that is commonly used in cold medicines, ...

The latest drug abuse trend for youths? Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, available everywhere from drug stores to convenience stores. Police and doctors tell USA Today that medicines such as ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A new state law that goes into effect August 1, makes it illegal for teens to buy over the counter cough syrup without a prescription. Nearly every over the counter cough ...

Scientists from EMBL Heidelberg were part of a collaborative effort to discover an effective treatment for lung fibrosis and found that the best candidate may be one that is already available as a ...

An over-the-counter cough suppressant can knock some heart cells back into rhythm, a finding that may lead to a new way to treat a rare heart condition called long QT syndrome. The discovery was made ...

Gainesville, FL - Temporal summation of repeated pain stimuli, also known as "windup" pain, is mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and this pathway has long been suspected of ...

Parents might be needlessly spending billions of dollars on certain over-the-counter cough medicines for their children and teenagers, as the drugs' commonest medicinal ingredients are no more ...

Beginning yesterday, Arizonans must be 18 or older in order to purchase cough medicine containing the ingredient dextromethorphan (DXM) without a prescription. Arizona becomes the fifth state to pass ...

After the death of Jon Frary last September, it was clear to many members of the Bloomington, Ill., community that something needed to be done to regulate the sale of cough medicine. Yes, cough ...

April 21, 2008 (Toronto, Ontario) — A recent study describes how, after abuses of dextromethorphan pills in an American army camp in South Korea were detected, measures were taken to limit this threat ...

In Sikar's Khori Brahmanan village, five-year-old Nityans had been suffering from a persistent cough. His mother took him to the nearby Community Health Centre (CHC) under the state's free medicine ...